the difference it makes is not worth the ugliness of that...sorry but if your worried about a loss for 4* your crazy, and make a powerwire and your engine will never know the difference....i havent logged my iat lately but it was great the last time i did it and my aluminum intake is NOT wrapped with funk...

 

Hey that thing was a work of art!!! lol. That intake was pieced together. It came of my 3.7 Dakota and i had to buy a small extension to get it to run to the air box on the 4.7 ram. Then I had to plug the vent hose tube on the intake. You should have seen what was underneath all the wrapping. lol. No I'm not worried about a 4* difference, it just seemed like the tube was getting hotter than it should be. Maybe I'm just paranoid idk? I like the way it performs on the 5.7 though. The only problem i have is when I get on it going down the interstate. If I'm at 70 and I hammer it the truck revs to around 6k and drops really fast to 4700 and then kicks back. It seems to hesitates for a sec and then goes. I know its going to drop back down a little but surely not that much.

 

why didn't you just go with exhaust wrap... like the stuff on bikes?

 

JAwalker, ive gotten heck over my CAI at the dealer and its a K&N...nothing custom about it. My truck got (stuck) at 60mph one day and I had to cut it off in a parking lot off of the highway going 60 lol and they said it was because of that, wouldnt do anything about it

My blend door failed and guess what? CAI according to them

My truck was running ridiculously hot for awhile and I took it in on the way home....CAI fault they said

 

Looked into the exhaust wrap that stuff isn't exactly cheap. Not sure what website it was on but they do make universal intake sleeves that are suppose to cut back or prevent the intake from heating up. They have laces that you tighten up all the way up the tube. Just like you would lace up your shoes. edit: DEI make a wrap that uses velcro instead of lace.

As for the dealer. They haven't really said anything to me about the Ebay one yet, I just thought that if they saw the pvc in there they would frown upon it. Before I made a decent bracket for the ebay intake I went back to the dealership for regular service, and I guess one of the mechanics thought my bailing wire bracket wasn't up to par, and he took it upon himself to reinforce it with a coat hanger. I don't really think there is anything they can say.

 

Here are the links:

http://www.stylintrucks.com/sn.aspx?...first_answer=1

http://www.jcwhitney.com/cool-air-tu...erid=c2035u0j1